How many copies has Forts sold?

indielist estimates Forts has sold between 1,356,480 and 3,165,120 units (median 2,260,800), derived from its 25,120 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Forts was published by EarthWork Games, developed by EarthWork Games. See EarthWork Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Forts have on Steam?

Forts has 25,120 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.

Is Forts worth playing?

Steam players rate Forts 92% positive across 25,120 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Forts

Apr 19, 2017 Action $14.99

Developer EarthWork Games Publisher EarthWork Games

Profile updated May 2026

Forts is an action-strategy indie game released in 2017. It has garnered over 20,510 Steam reviews. The developer and publisher information is currently unavailable.

Forts is a 2017 Action game developed by EarthWork Games and published by EarthWork Games. On Steam it has gathered 25,120 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer EarthWork Games with publisher EarthWork Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.4 million to 3.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Forts can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

25,120

Positive

92%

Steam appid

410900

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

668

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 19:05 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.4M to 3.2M

units (median: 2.3M)

≈ $11.6M to $27.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.4M median 3.2M

+ How is this calculated?

25,120 reviews × NB(90) = 2,260,800 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$15	0
positive_92%	+10
final NB	90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Forts at roughly 1.4 million to 3.2 million copies, with a median around 2.3 million, derived from its 25,120 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $19.4M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $7.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $7.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $7.49 on 2026-06-17.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Forts sold?: indielist estimates Forts has sold between 1,356,480 and 3,165,120 units (median 2,260,800), derived from its 25,120 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Forts?: Forts was developed by EarthWork Games and published by EarthWork Games.
Who published Forts?: Forts was published by EarthWork Games, developed by EarthWork Games. See EarthWork Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Forts released?: Forts was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Forts have on Steam?: Forts has 25,120 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Is Forts worth playing?: Steam players rate Forts 92% positive across 25,120 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Forts can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as People Playground, Scrap Mechanic, Ravenfield, Fireworks Mania - An Explosive Simulator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, EarthWork Games's other releases and EarthWork Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Forts sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Forts page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.